By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein During the last few days, we have been living under a strong wave of disinformation regarding a possible US “invasion” or military intervention against Venezuela, which has been seasoned with the already natural contradictions of President Trump’s rhetoric. Of course, it cannot be ignored in the analysis that Venezuela has the largest certified oil reserves on ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein I would like to offer some guidelines that will contribute to understanding Trump’s war against Venezuela and its insertion into regional and global dynamics. I believe this situation must be viewed from two dimensions: the international and the domestic for the United States. Firstly, I think it’s necessary to say that in today’s world, no event ...
By Yunus Soner Venezuela has completed its presidential elections, with current President Nicolas Maduro being reelected as president. Maduro has started to gather his new cabinet. In recent years, the country has achieved financial stability with stopping hyperinflation and stabilizing the currency exchange rate. The oil industry continues to be the centerpiece of the economy, with a limited sanctions relief ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, Caracas, Venezuela The presidential election has concluded. They were long days of extreme tension in which the Venezuelan people were subjected to strong psychological pressure campaigns accompanied by enormous financial and media support for the opposition that included an action of digital terrorism against the National Electoral Council (CNE), preventing it from publishing the final results ...
Today, the Venezuelan people are asked to take part in a referendum on the Guayana Esequiba territory, a land mass of 160,000 km2 that is disputed between Venezuela and neighboring Guyana. The population is asked 5 questions: Whether to reject the 1899 Paris Arbitration Award frontline between the two countries by “any means necessary”; to support the 1966 Geneva ...
The circus put on by the United States and Norway, its NATO ally with respect to Venezuela, marked a turning point on October 17 when an agreement was signed between the government and the opposition. The circus relates to the ridiculousness of negotiating outside Venezuelan territory (in Mexico and Barbados) only because there is no United States embassy in Venezuela, ...
By Douglas Bolivar reporting from Caracas / Venezuela With a resounding but predictable statement from María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan political class in general reacted with nuances to the horrifying confession of former United States President Donald Trump, who admitted that the intention of his administration with respect to Venezuela was to provoke a collapse to seize the oil. This ...
By Douglas Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, translation and editing by Yunus Soner Relations between the United States and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are getting in a state of flux. Anonymous US administration officials announced in an interview with the AP news agency the “easing of a few economic sanctions” against Venezuela. The easing will allow Chevron Corp. to negotiate its ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, Caracas, Venezuela * A look at the pages of international information news reveals daily a world that is struggling with what has been called sanctions. In other words, the planet must struggle constantly with the imperial decision to make the peoples suffer in order to impose its own truth, in this case the truth of 11% ...
By Douglas Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela (Photos by Pedro Solano, translation and editing by Yunus Soner) “We can produce 1 million barrels per day more by the end of the year, and even sooner, if the US lifts sanctions. With major investment in petrochemicals on the way, Venezuela can turn into the energy locomotive of Latin America,” says Ángel Rodríguez. With ...